Guild Wars

Guild Wars is a a massively multi-player online role-playing game (MMORPG) with an emphasis on tactical combat. In single player, multiplayer and guild-based missions, players will explore a fantasy world while pursuing professions and gaining skills that help them develop and advance their unique character.

Key members of the creative teams behind the hit games Warcraft, StarCraft, and Diablo, as well as Battle.net founded Guild Wars, the first title from Seattle-based ArenaNet. Guild Wars offers cooperative group combat, single player missions, and large head-to-head guild battles. While each combat experience is different, achievements will be permanent so that the character grows and progresses over time. Unique items, special abilities, and a wide variety of skills add meaningful value for the player and for his or her comrades. Missions are not scripted adventures, but are tactical battlegrounds where victory or loss is determined by skill and teamwork.

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In four days from now NCsoft's free-to-player MMORPG Guild Wars will celebrate its fourth anniversary. Today the publisher of the subscription-free game sent out word that sales have topped over six million since launch. As part of the celebrations, ArenaNet and NCsoft will be hosting in-game birthday celebrations and will be pushing the recently released content update which includes new quests and extra storage options.

'"We are humbled by how gamers have responded to Guild Wars over the past four years, and we are proud that the game and its community have helped to continually shape, define, and expand the genre," said ArenaNet studio head Mike O'Brien. "Our subscription-free business model has proven to be a big hit with gamers, bringing an enormous and diverse online community to the game."' Read More »